Hardcover. Quarto. 25 plates. Original light blue leather Cosway style binding, with engraved brass plate and painted enamel miniature mounted on front cover; brass clasp lock and blind-stamped ruling on spine. Gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. The brass plate is artfully engraved with four buttons featuring the Star of David and..... More
London: W. Griggs, Elm House, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 16pp., 28 plates in chromolithography. Original black half-cloth over dark brown paper-covered, color-illustrated boards with elaborate decorative gilt framing, black lettering with decorative, heightened initials and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Back cover with same decorative framing..... More
NP: NP, 1900s. First edition. Hardcover. Large Oblong Quarto. 45 numbered chromolithographic and hand-colored plates. Original brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and double framing and black triple framing on cover, protected by modern mylar. Rare richly illustrated sample catalog containing forty-five plates depicting more than 1,100 samples of jewelry..... More
NP: NP, 1899, 1900. Original artwork. Loose leaf. Elephant Folio. 27 plates. Original string-tied three quarter textured black cloth over pebbled cloth boards with plain labels on cover and spine. A collection containing twenty-seven plates of watercolors and pen and ink drawings. Fourteen plates of jewelry designs are rendered in..... More
NP: NP, No date. Original artwork. Hardcover. Folio. 100 plates. Light gray cloth with hand-numbered printed label on cover, handwritten numerals on spine. Collection of three thousand meticulous pen and ink drawings of rings, earrings, brooches, lapel pins, cuff links, bracelets, clasps, barrettes, numbered 24916 to 27915. All images are..... More
New York: Kouchakji Fréres, 1923. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Elephant Folio (18 1/4 x 15"). 194pp (Text) + 60 leaves of plates. Uncut. Original black morocco over gilt-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Top edge gilt. Decorative headpieces and initials. This is numbered copy #154 of..... More
Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, ND (ca 1930). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (17 2/8 x 12 6/8"). [4]pp (Title and list of contents), 36 loose leaves (Plates), as issued. Original quarter black cloth over illustrated paper covered boards. String ties. Illustrated title. This remarkable work is a pictorial survey of French..... More
Hamburg: Selbsverlag (Self published), (1907). Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated (92 leaves). Modern brown cloth and endpapers. Scarce catalogue with b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings of various metal artworks & fine metal framing by the German company H. C. E. Eggers. The business was started in 1865, originally manufacturing safes but..... More
Pforzheim, Germany: Kunstgewerbe-Verein, 1879. Original artwork. Loose leaf. Elephant Folio (18 1/2 x 12 3/8"). Five plates of heavy cardboard with cardboard mat framing forty-three original watercolor and pen and ink designs of jewelry. Each cardboard inked 1879 at top and numbered in ink II. 1., pages 17, 18, 21..... More
Buenos Aires: Libreria El Ateneo, (1944). Editorial Construcciones Sudamericanas. Hardcover. 152 leaves resting in decorative paper-covered portfolio with cloth folding flaps and string-tie. Illustrated with 129 mainly color (some b/w) reproductions of drawings showing wrought ironwork of doors, door handles, door hinges, door knockers, locks, gates, clocks, lanterns, lighting fixtures..... More
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924. First edition Limited edition. Hardcover. 45/300. Folio. 294pp., 52 plates. Original half vellum over marbled boards with gilt lettering on cover, black lettering on spine; housed in a matching marbled slipcase. Frontispiece engraving. Red and black title page. Historiated red initials. Half-title for..... More
Meriden, CT: Rogers Bros Silverplate, International Silver and Co, [1930]. First edition. Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated. [14]pp. Original spiral bound black and silver decorative stiff wrappers. This splendid work introduces "Silhouette," the new silverware pattern from 1847 Rogers Bros.* Illustrated with two tipped-in heliogravures and two striking pochoir plates by Reynaldo..... More
Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1934. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/35. Bound in publisher's deluxe gold-stamped leather, protected by mylar jacket. Top-edge gilt. Frontispiece. Elaborate publication, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions of arms & armor of various countries. Illustrations are from the author's own photographs and drawings, museums and some..... More
Roma: Girolamo Mainardi, 1736. Later printing. Hardcover. Folio. [24], 318, [6], XXXpp. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title and sketch in ink on spine. Title page in red and black lettering. Vignette on title page. Decorative initials, head-, and tailpieces. Exquisite edition of the "Dialoghi" of Antonio Agustin y Albanell..... More
Los Angeles: Ornamental Iron Mfg. Association, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 95 (1)pp. Original stapled stiff tan wraps with embossed orange association seal in orange on front cover. Vignette on title page. Decorative headers throughout. Profusely illustrated with works by Wallace Neff, Ken Weber, George Washington Smith, Myron Hunt, Morgan..... More
Oxford: Published by the author, n/d. Hardcover. 4to. 96 pp. numbered only on the left side (actually 192 pp). Light teal cloth binding with white design embossed in cover. Also with gilt design and seller's information and address. Illustrated with chromolithographic images of items for sale. Facing pages list item..... More
![Item #21890 Jahrbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Goldschmiedekunst [Band I - 1938]. Ferdinand...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21890.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1434441479)
München: F. Bruckmann, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated [13]pp (text), [67]pp (photographs). Original tan cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Published by the "Deutschen Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst*" (the German Society for Goldsmiths' Art), this rare 1938 yearbook is splendidly illustrated with striking b/w photographs showcasing the..... More
Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1911. Second edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Portfolio. 3/4 blue cloth over textured grey boards. Blue lettering on front cover. Foreword by Hans Bösch. Compiled and edited by Adalbert Roeper. This is a second edition of the work originally published in Munich in 1896. A fascinating portfolio of..... More
Prague: Böhm, 1906. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Original decorative wrappers with gold lettering on front cover. Publisher's device on title-page. Decorative tailpiece. Title-page and text in dark green lettering. Splendid photo-illustrated survey of the Czech art of iron and metal work from the 16th to the 18th century..... More
München: Jos. Albert, Kunstverlag, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Portfolio. Blue buckram boards with brown string ties. Black debossed decoration and lettering on front cover. Foreword by Hans Bösch. Compiled and edited by Adalbert Roeper. A fascinating portfolio of five centuries of German decorative forged ironworks, including 50 numbered..... More
Paris: Editions D'Art Charles Moreau, [ca. 1925]. Hardcover. Folio. [2] pp. 32 plates in photogravure (1-3 per plate). Later half-leather red leather binding with gold lettering on spine. Corners and upper edge of spine bumped, lower edge torn. Marble endpapers. Artistic iron workmanship in the 1920s art nouveau and art..... More
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 8pp., 36 plates, as issued. Original string-tied portfolio in blue quarter-cloth over illustrated gray paper-covered boards with blue lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Foreword by Henri Clouzot. This remarkable work is a pictorial survey of French Art Deco ironworks..... More
Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie. 1925. First edition. Loose leaf. Large Folio. (4) 36 (1) plates. Original brown half-cloth over tan boards, string-tied portfolio with decorative illustrations and black lettering on cover. Title page with two illustrations. Catalog of Art Nouveau ironworks for gates, doors, door handles, staircase rails, lamps..... More
Stavanger, Norway: NP, 1918. Limited ed. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. viii, 350 pp. Tan cloth binding. Head and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped. Light staining to covers. Decorated endpapers. Frontis. 97 b/w plates printed on glossy paper. Red ink decoration at the beginning of each chapter with first line..... More
Ditchling Common, Hassocks, Sussex: St. Dominics Press, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [ii],vi,37,[2]pp. Original full limp vellum with vellum ties & gold lettering on spine. Pages unopened. Illustrated with one full-page reproduction of a woodcut by the author as well as several in-text wood engravings. Printed by hand on a...... More